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Around The Corner
Zena Van den Block
35 Rue Souverain Pont
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VMC gargouilles
Thomas Sindicas
31b Rue de la Cathédrale
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Kodomo No Kuni
Mey Semtati
18 Rue de l'Etuve
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The Faces Collection
Anna Safiatou Touré
16 Rue du Palais
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QuickSnap
Camille Poitevin
40 Rue Hors-Château
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P.O.F
Ronan Marret
75 Rue Hors-Château
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Belles récompenses
Mathilde Manka
159 Féronstrée
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Quatre Mains / Zonder Handen
Stephanie Lamoline
107 Féronstrée
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Anatomie du vivant / Life
Sophie Keraudren-Hartenberger
98 Rue de la Cathédrale
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À mon seul désir
Gral
32 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Rain Bow
Guillaume Gouerou
4 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Knock me !
Garage de Recherches Graphiques
85 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Double Bind
Jane Denizeau & Pauline Flajolet
1 Féronstrée
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Pie in the sky
Justine Corrijn
20 Rue de la Sirène
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Parking Cathédrale
Elias Cafmeyer
31a Rue de la Cathédrale
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Dés-Affectations
Elie Bolard
84 Féronstrée
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Kader / Cadre
Doris Boerman
29 Rue de l'Université
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Fatigue
Camille Bleker & Luna Pittau
3 Place des Déportés
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Si tu me vois
Aurélie Belair
56 Rue Saint-Gilles
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Terres battantes
Camille Barbet
100 Rue de la Cathédrale
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The end–promise on packaging
Pharaz Azimi
23 Rue Saint-Michel
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J’ai déclaré ma flamme
Artik
25 Rue Saint Paul
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my belongings
Celine Aernoudt
5 Rue Chéravoie
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Barrotes
#11
Jesse Siegel
Artist selected as part of the open call
27029 Rue de l'Université
The relationship between commerce and desire is at its most evident and public in the layers of separation of the commercial vitrine. The objects and those that desire them are engaged in a performative dance mediated by only glass and good manners.
We aim to see within, to be entered into consumerist fantasies of owning the designer clothing, the new electronics, the lifestyle promised on the other side of the vitrine. We are exteriorised not only in our inability to consume, but in our inability to enter the spaces of consumption through the stories that they tell. Of elegance, newness or unattainable familial relationships.
In Spanish, we call the metal bars on the exteriors of residential and commercial windows Barrotes. They often take decorative and elegant shapes. However, the word is the same as for the divider of a jail cell.
The large scale vinyl decal presented here is inspired by such metal coverings. This symbol becomes an almost votive gesture of protection to the space within. A minimalist intrusion into the interior/exterior interaction with the window and a fragile reminder of how much social constructs themselves protect us and our objects, and not so much the windows or bars.